The Matt Thomas Show with Ross - Rockets Sign Jalen Green, Alpy To Extensions, Big SEC Matchups, How Many Miles Your Car Got?

Episode Date: October 22, 2024

Matt Thomas and Ross Villarreal of "The Matt Thomas Show with Ross" react to the Houston Rockets signing Jalen Green and Alperen Sengun to contract extensions ahead of their season opener against the Charlotte Hornets. Matt and Ross also:give closing remarks on the Texans' loss to the Green Bay Packerspreview the biggest SEC matchups of the weekpredict the top headlines of the Astros' offseasongive their latest "Gut Feelings"recap Week 7 in "Ross' NFL Rewind" and more

Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas Show. 12-0-2 at H-Town. What's happening in lunchtimers? Good afternoon to you and welcome to a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show. With Ross, this is Sports Talk 790. One block left, Williamson, straight on, three-point try. Coming up, back guy, that's a miss from a column, and the rebound comes down to rockets.

Jalen Green comes across the timeline. Crossover, down the lane with a right. Explosive right at the restricted area to flush it down. Blink goes right bounce pass at Jalen kicks it out right side of Jabari setting firing and missing bad on a rebound three point try pick up by Shengoon a no look pass of the weak side and Jalen Green puts it in for two good layup but even a better pass from Alpy catching it green side pocket three swish 14 to three the run first field goal the fourth for Jalen Green 24 in the half all together Craig lost the basketball. It's a steal for Jaylin. He's going to try to go three-quarter court.

He'll dunk it down for two points. He took the ball at the free throw in one end, race down the other, beat two Chicago Bulls, including Alex Caruso, and he jams it down for a timeout to Chicago. Bouts pass to Alpy. He'll twist, gets around when Binyama, puff fakes once, twice, goes up, and jams it down with the right hand. Shengoon in the Battle of the Big Men.

Leading Wimby. Great song. Hold up. Here we go. Oh, yeah. Good highlights. Next, excuse me. Great highlights.

Sir Mixing McGovern over there taking care of it for us. Uh-huh. And you can never have enough OJs on the Matt Tomer show was Ross. This is the jam right here, Maddie. Oh, for sure. Gets the people going. Yeah. Are people listening right now that were conceived to this song?

Us white guys can dance in this song. We'll try. In your case. I can do it. I feel like McGovern. I mean, he brags so much about his dancing. He's got to be good. He's just completely a bit of lovious.

We're going to have a dance cam. He's going to ask for tickets for a Rockets game sometime for me. Yes. And I'm going to make sure it's a dance cam game. Okay. And he's going to cut his rug in front of a large crowd at the Toyota Center. Wow. He's just going to have...

Make him viral. His armament's thrown at him. Instead of being one, two, three, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, and ten. Hmm. Yeah, I might want to start getting tested monthly after that. Wow. So you're basically assuming that Connor's going to get a sexually transmitted disease. Well, I'm just saying, you want to be careful out there.

Okay, that's good. You're going to play in the puddles? You've got to wear your rubber boots. You just think of that? I'm not really kind of puddles. Do you get the... What are you 80? Well, if you're going to play in them puddle now, Matt,

you want to make sure you're wearing your rubber boots. So the Houston Rockets extend... Green and Alvran Shin-Good. Hold on, your oatmeal's being warmed up. Yeah, is that the tapioca? You got for me? Tapioca. Disgusting pudding.

Tapioca is not disgusting. It's not good. It's not good. I'm going to say slightly underrated. How come only you have to be over 70 to enjoy it? That should tell you everything about it. Okay. The onions are eating a rice, a banana.

Rice pudding? Okay. Banana pudding's delicious. Old people love banana pudding. I think old people in general like pudding. Yeah, anything that they can eat. eat with their gums. That's right.

And at some point, you and I'll be in that situation. Can't wait. All right. Good afternoon, everybody. It's 12.07 on Sports Talk 7 out of it. Still kind of fighting through this allergy season. Yeah, I don't know if his allergies are cold or well. I'm feeling better today.

You sound a little nasal, a little drip. I don't feel, feel bad, but I just want to get rid of it. Yeah, you look like hell. But, no, I don't. Actually, you look sharp. The fresh shave, it's good on you. It's good shave. It's good.

I'm really perhaps one of the more handsome media members in this community. Okay, I wasn't going to say that because it's not true. I did. Okay. All right. I'm no Connor De McGovern though, so. Well, who is? That's right.

All right. He's like the Brad Pitt of the sports media. Is that what he is? Yeah. Okay. Well, you know, he covers, he's legit media. He's got rid of the fake media out there that pretends our media. So I give him credit for that.

Yeah. Well, Rockets game's firing up. He can go cover the games for us and start retweeting himself like crazy. So that'd be good. Wow. Wow. Connor, you're going to accept that? It's not true.

You know what, that was me. He is our Rockets Insider. He is our Rockets Insider. We appreciate him for that. I'll be there on Wednesday. All right. I'll be with you. Opening night, you're going to be there too?

Absolutely. What do you mean? All right. I've got anything else to do? Ashtro starts playing. Normally there have been conflicts. No scheduling conflicts this year. The entire 790 midday posse is going to be there hanging out.

Are they? We go to three of us. Oh, okay. All right. Hey, I was thinking of Stan and Gordy. I don't know. No, Stan's in my seats. Yeah, he asks for your tickets, I know.

Yeah. So, that's, does it about once a week. But I'm not going to judge him for it. I'm judging him a little bit. That's fine. All right. He's bored. We have a interesting show today.

We've got feelings coming up at 1 o'clock this afternoon. Oh, yes. We've got to make rocket season gut feelings. Yeah. I mean, I'm going to say 82 and O. Okay, well, I think they're going to fall short of that. I mean, don't you? Well, seriously.

When you're the voice of a team, do you want to predict losses? Well, you can live in reality. I mean, and no, they're not going to go 82 and 0. Okay, so I'll say 65 and 17. Yeah, like I said, you'd like you to live in reality. Okay, I'll say, well, you know what the win total is? Isn't it 43.5? 43 and a half?

That's going to be on the edge of 8, 9, 10. Well, Rafael Stone and the organization bet the over yesterday. Yeah. Took care of them. Took care of some guys. The NBA money is insane. Yes. It's every bit as insane as what quarterbacks get paid in the NFL.

Mm-hmm. Yeah, they get a lot of money because the owners get a lot of money. Yeah, well, I'm saying everything. I can't remember. Is there CBA? It's close to 50-50. I don't remember who has the edge. It's somewhere in that percentage.

It's 51-49, something like that. Point being is this. Everybody that wants to tell me how they don't watch something or they don't go to something, there's plenty of people that do because these salary caps in the NFL and the NBA because they have the two sports of a salary cap

are dictated almost exclusively based on revenues brought in by the league. Yes. And the television revenues are about to go up, I mean, up, up, next year because they're going to be doing

a new deal with NBC. TNT's going away. There's an Amazon package coming in. I mean, NFL's always trying to find another segment of... So Peacott getting in there? NBC's on by Petok. Yeah.

So it'll be some Peacot games. But you don't want to call it its nickname. What's the nickname? The PC? I mean, I haven't heard that one. Okay. Why does it need shortening? It's peacock. It's two silences. I don't disagree. I would never say what the nickname is. It'd be like going from Matthew to Matt. Like, what's the point?

I know, I know. All right. So here we go. We got got feelings at 1 o'clock this afternoon. We have the NFL rewind at 1.30. Okay. Which you've known about every Tuesday we've done since sort of season. Yeah, I'm ready. And then we've got, believe it or not, today at 250, we have, and I don't think necessarily it's going to drive a lot of sports talk traffic, but we do have two rockets that have really new deals. And the, not consensus, but the majority have said these are deals.

These guys could have gotten more money. Okay. The rockets try to get in there and get these guys done during the negotiating period. So they are going to pay these guys a lot of money, but give them the rockets a little more flexibility and not having to pay max dollars. and it feels like to me the majority, not everybody, but the majority says these are these are savvy deals that take care of both the player and the team and that's how it usually likes to work out of both ways.

Okay. Well, you're paying them both like stars, they need to play like stars. I'm ready. I'm ready for those guys to take the next step forward and get to the playoffs and give me a ring. It's all about always comes circles back to you. Why wouldn't it be?

Why are we getting the city a ring, Matt? I'm getting Toulin Fratita and Raphael Stone a ring and IMA Adoka. They'll be getting rings. Okay. Will you get a cubic zirconia one or? I'll rephrase. Get me and the team and the coaches and the general managers are ring.

That's better. Is that better? I guess. Okay. Yeah, they're all just doing your bidding, Matt. I sold the two rocket championship rings from the 90s. Now, they were Cubics. I would hope that at this point in 2024 I would be moving up in class.

Oh, you're giving me some bad news. All right. That's fine. Tell them I'm going to spend that extra money. We'll see. Yes. We're friends. One for me, you wouldn't have known

the team was for sale. Really? Yeah. You know that you know that story. You brokered the deal? You know that story, don't you? Maybe sounds vaguely familiar. Yeah.

You and I were in the big 12 media days. Yeah. And Tad Brown, the president of the time of the team was going to have a press conference. And you and I were talking. I said, why the hell would you have a press conference for in the middle of July? Mm-hmm.

And I put a couple of phone calls in and found out it was because Leslie Alexander was going to sell the team. Okay. So I texted Tellman. okay and he's like what are you talking about I said he's going to have

Tad is having a press conference well he would have found out eventually yeah but I mean there was somebody to be the first that's true I'm proud of you Matt great job thank you you should have got a finder's fee

on that by the way what's 2% of 2 billion oh was that what he sold it for or 10% of 2 billion 5% I don't know what's the standard fee I would have taken some gift cards

from two landers less should have chunked you off a finder's fee yeah I basically broke with the deal. Okay. Well, that's great. Let's see how that's working out. I think, I think Tillman's turning into a decent profit. So far. Yeah, he's doing well, but I mean, I'm talking about the winning. Oh, well, that's going to happen this year. Will it? Deep playoff run.

82 and 0, you said, I guess. Well, that's what you got to do. All right, 1213 on Sports Talk 790, 713, 212-2-5-790. 713. We come back with, did you read anything between the lines of Damico, media get together yesterday about what kind of potential changes he might make what many for the game Sunday against the Colts. We'll get to that next on 790. Lunch timers. This is the Matt Thomas show. 1219 on Sports Talk 790.

It is a Tuesday edition of the Matt Thomas show with Ross. Very nice to have all of you with us. Well, I've got feelings coming up in 40 minutes from now. The rewind at 130, believe it or not today, at 250. hilarity, insights, analysis, and we'll probably go off topic a handful of times as well. Never. All right, so we carried a part of the D'Amico Ryan's press conference yesterday.

Yes. Oh, did you notice on Sunday they kept calling him D'Amico Ryan? Yes, I did. He kept on Jim Nance did it, and who was the sign-line reporter? She did it too. Tracy Wolfson. Tracy Wolfson. Yeah, I heard it at least two times.

Me too. I thought it was going crazy. I googled his name. I'm like, have I had this wrong or something? You did not Google his name. You've known about him for long enough time. Yeah. Well, Kevin Walter was really confused.

Owen Daniel hated it too. It's amazing. You're at that level of national broadcast. And you can goof up a couple little things. Yeah, come on, Jim, Nance. Where'd you go to school? You've got to learn a little better. Let me tell you something.

He's a Hall of Fame broadcaster. Don't you forget it. it'll be nice if you get the coach of the name of the game he's calling right he still's got the to me it's great it's still he's the voice and theatrics it sounds like you're watching the game in the clouds like his voice is so velvety it's like it's comfort eating away i don't know how to explain it no that's fine it's like it's awesome i think it's great like he should he should he should like announce when you go into the the pearly gates of heaven hello I'm Jim Nance and welcome to heaven.

And our first candidate is Matt Thomas. Matt, you're going to be stuck in purgatory for a while. We've checked your IG history and you are going down below. Hey, wait a minute. Don't out me like that. Just kidding. Taylor says hello. Yeah, I have not checked on her today. I'll give you an update on her. I'm sure she's fine, Matt. You don't need to check on her. She's not in the ICU.

Maybe she needs a resuscitation. You never. know. Okay. All right. So, okay, back to Domeco. I got the sense that he was being obviously tight lip because he's never going to be very forthcoming in these little media get-togethers.

But it feels like to me that he today with the players off day, that they're in that office and they are really trying, they're scratching her heads at I know we didn't have Nico Collins on Sunday. We're not going to have him for the next three games. But we've got to do something to protect our quarterback because I thought C.J. Stroud for his young Texan's career was at his most,

not belligerent, it would be too strong of a term, animated. He was really, I think he's worried about, A, not moving the team down in the football field, and B, running for his life. Yeah, it's kind of hard to move the chains when you're running for your life, when Titus Howard is straight up falling down. And then there's in the middle, in the left side, and the right side, there's free runners the whole game. coming at you. Yeah. Not good.

All right, so what did you have to say? Well, here's the first thing about cleaning up the protection from Domingo. We have a lot of things to clean up when it comes to our protection and it's everyone involved, right? Oline, tight-ands, backs, everybody working together, being on the same page and just getting it done. Like, we've had multiple weeks where the same things have hurt us multiple times, so we have to get a fixed

starting with the coaches and down to the players of finishing and executing that. So the reality is, it sounds like to me, without him doing directly to a particular group, is that there was running back protection issues, and that Dolby Schultz, and who's the other guy that plays once in a while? Cade Stova. Cedon Quintoriano? Yeah, but I don't think.

Can Quintoriano play this week? I think he played a little bit. Okay, but Stover was definitely out there, that those guys are not doing their job. It's a collective effort, which means it sounds like to me that this week, if they need to, they'll keep guys in, which means there'll be less opportunities for those tight ends that kind of spring out of the line of the line on the offensive line and become pass catchers. They're going to be into block. And what are they going to consider, D'Amico, to get things fixed? Yeah, for me, everything is on the table when it comes to it has to get fixed.

Everything on the table? What does that mean? Line up changes? Rotation of guards? The O-line coach? Do you have one thing that's going to work? Benching Laramie Tunsell? No, that's not going to happen.

No, Laramie will not be benched. I mean, if you said... Nor should he be. If you said take a week off, he'd do it. He's like, I'm still getting my game check? Yeah, I mean, he cares about his money. He doesn't really particularly care about winning. That's not true, Matt.

He's out there every week, playing hurt. I think people have the same set eyes that I do. He's there for the check. He's gone down in games multiple times and come back. He's showing the fight and the will to win. Are you like his stepbrother or something? something? I'm just saying the fact multiple times he's gone down with energy in the game

and multiple times he's come back. He hadn't missed the game. Okay. Yeah, but... I mean, if he was just laying up, then he could have just kicked his knee up, it kicked his foot up and said, hey, man, I'm hurt. I'll see you guys later. Put me on IR. One, two, three, IR and Cancun. Yes. All right. And then one more thing from

D'Amico, talking about the protection, he's saying it's not just one thing. They've got to get a lot of different things fixed. Yeah, like I said, when it comes to it, I know how we're coach what we're asking to be done and it's just it's not showing up on the tape so it's and it's not just one person it's the entire thing so it's just the entire offense from the top to the bottom we have to get it cleaned up not one person or one thing but multiple things

multiple issues that we have to get collectively we have to get it fixed saying all the right things yeah and obviously i'm throwing anyone under the bus not that i know the indianapolis defense and uh with great detail but i I'm going to assume that the pressure that Green Bay put on will be nearly as fierce because C.J has already knows that Colts defense very, very well. It's been a terrible defense, but did DeForest Buckner come back? I can't remember. I'd have to go look. We will ask our friend Derek Schultz on Friday when you joined the show.

Nice. I feel like Derek Schultz should be getting a paycheck from us. Is he going to predict another Colts win? Like he did week one? It wasn't a crazy thought. No, it wasn't. I'm just asking a question. Yeah, people heard. the cynicism in your voice.

I was just asking. He actually said that Texas were going to win the AMC South. What else do you want him to do? That's true and that looks like they are. But it's a big game. First place on the line. Kind of. Or a tie for first place. Sort of. There's still a lot left to go. We got all the division opponents and whatnot. But the head-to-head will be 1-1 if the Colts win the game on.

But they're not going to win. But if Forrest Buggner hadn't been back, but apparently is expected to return this week. Okay. So there you have it there. That would be huge for them. But I still don't think the pressure that Green Bay put on the offensive line will be nearly as fierce this week. And if it is

there's a massive problems, yeah. You can communicate a little better at home. And the fact is, is this team just a spectacular team on the road? I'm at home and just pedestrian and home? On the road, excuse me? No, the offensive line, it's pretty bad on the road. But why do you think that is? It's not like the crowd. I mean, they've been in loud crowds before.

Yeah. They're just not, they're not picking up things. It wasn't deafening at Lambeau field. I don't know. They need to be better at communicating. They're using their inside voices. They need to use their outside voices. It's like, it sounds like a therapist. Hmm.

And how did that make you feel, Matt? What part of that hurt you or something like that, right? Mm-hmm. All right. Wow. That's a tough place to be in. You're softening your voice. What if you're a stern therapist?

Well, it's not the 1920s. Well, but also you could say, Shut up, lad. Get back in line. Oh, no. I don't think every therapist sounds soothing. You don't think so? I don't think so.

I mean, I may have been in a few therapy sessions. And what makes you think that? All right. 713-212-5-7-9. With Dr. Villarreal, I'm Matt. 7-13-212-5-7-90. If you want to follow us on Twitter, you may do that. At SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Conardee McGover.

What do you guys want to talk about today? We have the rocket signings. We have the Texans still looking their wounds in their game against Green Bay, the Monday night game some last night. I got something for you. If you watch any of the game between Baltimore and Tampa Bay yesterday and you watch any of the game Sunday between Kansas City and San Francisco, just how far off are the Texans from those two teams in the AFC?

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For more details, 713-844-1100. that's 713-844-1100 online at shellfc u.org e-checking it's great today from the shell federal credit union so i brought up a question before we went to our last time out watching baltimore score at ease last night against tampa bay watching kansas city with an impressive win at san francisco how far are the texans from reaching that group of tier a significant subtle changes never going to happen or they're right there. They're five and two. Texans are five and two.

It's funny to say because the Ravens have lost twice, but the Chiefs and the Chiefs are undefeated. Yeah. The Ravens, Lamar Jackson, and the way that he's playing, did five passing touchdowns last night. He's unstoppable. He's the reigning MVP,

and right now he's the favorite for back-to-back. Yeah. He is. He absolutely is the, leading candidate for the MVP. But the thing of it is is that if you still talk about Lamar Jackson, you still say

where's his postseason success? I know. He was bad in that AFC championship game last year because he kept on trying to drive the ball down field a little bit too much rather than taking things that were underneath. I felt like he was pressing. I felt like he was pressing.

I felt like he was pressing in that particular instance. But I think for the most part, it's a small sample size thing and we kind of overblow it We talk about this playoff in baseball Where Jeremy Pena goes off and he's the greatest postseason player ever And Kyle Tucker has a few bad games He's the worst postseason player ever But can you say that he just ran into Kansas City

Over and over and over again? Like the Rockets That's part of it's rocket championship teams Were really close to going to the championship But Golden State was always in the way Is that what Lamar Jackson's kind of having to fight through right now? Right. Was James Harden a playoff choker? Well, there was a couple of games where

he choked, but they also ran into the greatest, one of the greatest dynasties in the history of the sport. So, yeah, but also I will say I do think he played bad in that particular game last year in the AFC championship. No, I would say if we went back and looked, the Ravens didn't get

much help from Jackson to win those games. All the playoff losses he's had. But he's had big games in the playoffs. Mm-hmm. But he's probably had as many good ones as bad ones. Would that be somewhat further? I would have to look it up, I guess.

But, yeah. All right, let's go to Vince in Midtown at 1235. Hi, Vince. Yes, to answer your question, I think Texans are quite a ways off from the Chiefs and the Ravens. I don't think it'll happen this year, but, you know, we're on the right track. But I wanted to kind of touch upon that Godwin injury yesterday with less a minute left. And so looked on some article and they, you know, according to the some analytics, they had a 0.1% chance of winning. And I'm just wondering, you know, what?

And, you know, this will lead to something else as well. So why is it even in the game? Why aren't they just taking needs? They're not going to win the game. But on top of that, I hear the NFL is thinking about adding an 18th game. And then you have the college kids. They're playing extra playoff games now. I mean, when does it end?

these injuries are just becoming more perfect and more prevalent. I know it's part of the game, but as you're adding games, are you not taken away from the quality of the games by having top players go down all the time? Thanks, Vince, for the phone call. It's a good conversation. By the way, Chris Godwin is going to have surgery this week

on a dislocated ankle. Yeah, it was nasty. Yeah, I did not see it because I knew it was coming. They said turn away, so I did. They didn't, yeah, ESPN didn't even replay it. So you had to go, some people on Twitter had it and stuff. It was as gruesome as you think. Yeah.

Yeah. Anything with the word dislocated blank is bad. You would like it to be located and it was dislocated. Todd Bowles was after the game about having Chris Godwin in and he was like, what are you talking about? We were trying to win the game. We were trying to get a touchdown, onside kick and then kick a field goal. Honestly, no issues with him playing that way. It was one minute to go and they were under a minute to go and they were down 10.

Yeah, you score a touchdown, get the onside kick. you, yeah, I can't. You mean, you get paid highly compensated amount. You're going for it. And I think somebody, I don't even remember who it was on Twitter. It was like an NFL pundit or somebody brought up a good point. Ask Chris Godwin if you wanted to be out there. I'm sure the answer was yes. Now, that's just what it is. To the central point, we are losing players left and right on a week-to-week basis.

Mike Evans went down in that game. Brandon Ayuktuor's A-Col this weekend. I mean, Pooka Naku has been out all year. Rushi Rice is out. And that's just right wide receivers. And to attack a little bit. to get clustered in him. Yeah, he gets slammed into the turf every other play. Last time I checked, Vince, television ratings are not going down.

Last time I checked, they're trying to add more international games. You're going to see an 18 game schedule. I think I haven't set it on a gut feeling one time by 2028. And I'm ready to extend that to even a little bit further, Rossi. Okay. I think we're going to see. I don't know how they're going to do it. but I feel like that 17th game is going to be an international game

almost every year. Rossi, they had one in five New England against one in five Jacksonville. And they had 67,000 people in that game. They don't care if you send winless teams. They want NFL football badly. And I don't think the NFL is prepared to put a team there. But the next best thing they can do is, putting a game there every single week.

Well, they pretty much did. How many games, they had Jaguars, had three games in a row there, right? It's basically their second home. You had Brazil of the game, first of all, an unsafe part of the world. It was an unsafe field. That field was terrible. Both teams, the Packers and Green Bay were, I mean, eagles in Green Bay, were slipping all over the place.

You have all of these, and you would know this better than I would. You have all these majestic soccer facilities. Yes, you do. With huge fan bases that you get to bring game that really counts? I mean, there's France, there's Spain, there's England.

Yeah, I don't know. I mean, they've been doing Germany. Germany, you have all those teams that play in front of 75,000 seats stadiums. Every time you put on a soccer game, which I'm fully expecting you do today. That's already on. They're always, every stadium seat is full.

You never see empties. The NFL wants that. Yes. And the NFL is going to give a stipend to these because ultimately the money they make over there gets put in the Big Kitty, which is distributed 32 ways. I think when they added

that there was some resistance from the players when they added the 17th game. I think they're going to go. I think the vote was very close. They had to revote or something like that. I don't know. And I think JJ Watt at the time was playing and was like, this is a bad idea for us long term.

You're going to have 18 games and one of them and everybody's going to play overseas one time. Yeah, here I found it. JJ Watt on the proposal. Hard no on that proposed CBA. He was among several high-profile players who did not agree with the deal, including Aaron Rogers and Russell Wilson. Yep. And they didn't listen. They don't give two craps what the players have to say. Because at the end of the day, the player paychecks are going to be larger.

So I think we're going to get 18. We're going to be down to maybe one preseason game with a bunch of those joint practices. And you're going to have one year you're going to have nine home games, one year you're going to have eight. And that 19th game is going to be played overseas. Okay. It's Mason Rudolph versus Davis Mills with the AFC South on the line. You're going to see rosters expanded. Okay.

You could, you would, I bet they would like to take mandatory weeks off, but I don't think that's going to be able to pass. What did we already see this past weekend? We saw Tyler Huntley, Mason Rudolph, Dorian Thompson, and James Winston. Yeah. I mean, and whatever else. was going on with backup quarterbacks.

But as you say these things, here's my quick answer back to that. Football's tough sport. Absolutely. I don't think they do everything humanly possible to try to put the best equipment on these guys to make sure that teams are penalized for late hits and personal fouls

and trying to preclude people from suplexing people. Yeah, but it doesn't ever change. But the players are bigger, stronger, faster. Sport science is better. The athletes are, I mean, exponentially stronger than they were 50 years ago, 60 years

ago, and so that means they're crashing into each other and I don't have any data on this but just on his face it seems like there's just more injuries week to week than there ever have been. And the answer to that is I don't have an answer. I don't think the NFL has an answer. The only way you'd have less injuries if you play less games.

Well, that ain't going to happen. Or flag football. No hitting. They're trying to legislate so much hitting out of the game anyways. Anytime there's a big hit on the field. The last several years, you're looking for yellow. You're looking for the flag. Every single play. Every single big. So here's what happens. Your quarterback gets hit really hard. Yes. And takes a tumble. Flag comes out. You cheer. 15 yards. Bonus yes. Forget about the

health of the player. Shaking his cobwebs off. You went from the 30 to the 15 puts us in field goal range. And then you got like Pat Mahomes this this weekend. The players try to kind of usher them out to the out of bounds. and then he cuts back inside and runs for 40 more yards. That's what Anthony Richardson's problem is with the Colts. The players are trying to let Pat Mahomes go out of bounds and then he cuts back in. So that's tough for the defenders. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-2-790.

Got feelings coming up at 1 o'clock today. We also have the NBA season starting tonight. Really? Rocket season starts tomorrow. Who's playing tonight? It is Minnesota Lakers Okay there we go

And then New York Boston Okay New York Boston Okay New York Boston There you go How much I'll watch of it Yeah I'll watch them

What else is on Conno's got a volleyball game What time 630 How long is that take Well you don't just start Until 7 So probably an hour and a half

Eighthirt And then Lakers Wolves isn't until 9 What if I'm doing other things You're not doing anything That's take four minutes max It's more like two and a half 713

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We were, I was just asked by you the Mount Rushmore of female TV news anchors in Houston. Why are you just throwing me directly under the bus right now? Well, it's compared to an indirect. No, we didn't even, there's no answers to it at this point. I got no comments.

We probably could do a two-hour show on it, but we're trying to keep it to sports here. Oh my God. This is terrible. You're a terrible human being. Yeah, I know. I fully admit that. Got feelings coming up at 1 o'clock this afternoon. So who you got? You know, honestly, this is a god's understanding. I don't watch a lot of local news.

Me either. The only time I watch it is when it's on after Sunday night football or, like, Monday night football, or national something. And then usually by the third murder, I'm like, oh, my, what am I watching this for? Like, I can tell you at Channel 11, female-wise, there's Mia Gradney. I don't know who that is. Channel 2 has Danielle Guzman. Okay. Not familiar with her word.

Lisa Hernandez. Okay. Wishing her the best. Channel 13, I couldn't tell you one person and I don't think I can tell you anybody at 26 either. Okay. But that's just how we've all consumed news differently now. When I was younger,

I watched all three because I used to want to catch my sports highlights. I used to, yeah, I used to wake up before school and put on the news on TV. Me too. Me too. Me too. I mean, mostly I was trying to see if there was this canceled. Oh, so you were basically, you were, you were, you were Klein-I-SD before became Clim-I-SD. Okay. And usually, you know, it was first in the alphabet, so it was like getting excited. But if it was 86 degrees outside, you knew you had to go to school.

One can hope that. Well, maybe there was some violence. Yeah, electrical fire. Maybe there was violence? No. Maybe there was somebody carrying it. There was not one shooting in the, I recall. Well, there was a few knife incidents.

Okay, well. I think maybe one gun's incident. I got you. 1251 on Sports Talk 790. All right. I mentioned this again to the audience. What would you like to talk about? Okay.

I mean, we've got kind of a list of what we're working on so far. We've mentioned the contract for the Rockets players. We have NFL what to fix in the Texans. How far the Texans are from one and two in the AFC. Is this just an aberration as far as the injuries in the NFL, or is this going to be the new normal? New normal. Everybody's injury prone?

Everybody's going to have injury history. Okay. Because to your point, to your point, injury prone mean frail bodies that can't handle it. For instance, Lance McCullors is injury prone. We'll see. He's coming back strong this year, baby. When?

This year. Well, this next year. 2025. You promise? You can put your name on it? I'm good. Come on, put your name on it. I'm fine. Who's back first? Louis Garcia or Lance McCullors? Lance McCullors, Jr. Without a doubt. out. No, both of them.

They're both ready for spring. Let's go. In the Astero starting rotation. Both of them, ready for spring. Let's go. Why are your fingers crossed? They're not. I got arthritis. I miss baseball. I got to be honest with you. What do you mean? It's coming on this Friday. Oh, I'm not watching it.

It's not over. No chance. The second, the final out is recorded for the World Series. Are we going to go back on Bregman Watch? You're going to have to. Five days. Breggman Watch. 2024. We could have started Bregman Watch in, late March.

Yeah, but we'd been wasting our breath. Correct. And I think we're going to be wasting our breath in this five-day window. Yeah, I do admire the diehards on Astros' Twitter saying, Jim, you've got to bring him back. Jose Al-Tuvae says, you've got to bring him back. How much weight does Jose Al-Tuvae's words, Kerry? You're going to find out. Okay.

Pay the man. How many? We go to the yearly pay the man's, don't we? I was biggest for Correa. It started for George Springer. Yeah. Then it moved on to Cardell's Correa. Remember when we used to argue Correa or Springer?

And now we're arguing Bregman or Tucker? They both went away. Yeah. I think it's going to be a similar conversation here. They might all be gone. Yeah, I would... Breggman Tucker, Fromber. All gone? All gone.

I think you're right. Now the question mark is, are the Astros going to be ballsy enough to trade the last two guys? in their final years. For what? For pieces to fill in the puzzle when those guys eventually go. I mean, if you're punting on 2025,

yeah, you need them if you want, if you think, if the window is always open, as Jim Crane said, you need those guys on your team. That's probably your best position player. When you factor in the fielding, it would be,

your best hitter. But it would be inconsistent, it would be inconsistent if he said that. But we've had owners that have said, we believe, like Dray McLean was the king of that. We're going to win. And then he would start shaving payroll.

That's different, though. Drayton has never shelled out cash the way that Jim Crane has. I know. And they already went over the threshold once. Yes. And the penalties get worse when you're repeater. It's really steep if you do it again. I think it's 20%.

And then it goes to 30%. And then third year it goes to 50%. Here will be the main argument. Here's what Jim I don't think can do. I don't think he can lowball Breggs. and Tucker and Valdez and then bring back Justin at some dollar amount because this is his golfing buddy

and by the way and frankly Justin's got I don't think there's anything left in the tank I think he's going to try to make one more run of it somewhere as a fourth or fifth stouter I wouldn't be totally a son if it was in Detroit clearly they need starting pitching they went with bullpen games and won them frankly but you know they're looking for starting pitching

yeah bring them home but what kind of I don't think Jim's do this. So maybe I'm just putting a hypothetical out there, but what kind of message would that be if they brought JV back on a one-year deal and that could have been money that could have been used towards somebody else? Well, you've got to spend it somewhere. But yeah, bringing JV back is, I think, a horrible idea.

Yeah, I do too. All right, ladies and gentlemen, I would like for you to come up with some gut feelings, some sports predictions. Do you have any? 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. We want sports predictions. We call them gut feelings.

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And if they come into pass, we will brag about them. If they are wrong, we just tend to forget about them. Tend to. Okay. Unless they're so obnoxious and so bad, we like to tease each other about. Oh, whatever. You mean, if they're mine, we bring them back up, and if they're yours, we'd gloss over them.

Tomato, tomato, potato, potato. Okay, you want last week? Yes. Green Bay wins by six, says Matthew Thomas, although you changed it to 10 by the end of the week. I did. And you were wrong on both accounts, but Green Bay did win, and honestly,

I wanted to crush you for saying the Texans were going to lose by 10, but if they didn't win that turnover battle 3 to nothing and get the gift seven off the muff punt, they should have lost that game by double digits. But I didn't, so it's on a win. No, I'm still giving you, I'm giving you a soft win. A soft win?

Yeah. It'd be like, that's silly. It'd be like a soft sweet. No, it's like a soft opening at a restaurant. Oh, I see. Yeah. Okay. I'll graciously take that.

Okay, good. It's one of the nice thing you've ever given me. I'm trying to compliment you here and you won't even take it. I'm taking it now. It happens once a blue moon here. I know, as I'm saying, what am I doing? Why am I stopping this right now? You had the Cougars beat, being the Kansas Jayhawks.

Uh-huh. What was the final score on that one? It was the Cougars put up 14. What did the Jayhawks have? I forgot. It might have been 42. Ooh. And then you called a Yankees-Dodgers World Series.

Yeah, so the rest of America. Yeah, but I wanted you to be so wrong. I know. But you weren't. Let's see. I had the Texans. I said, take the money line in Green Bay, my lock at a week.

And, well, with under two minutes to go, they were money line winning, but then they lost, and they didn't even deserve to be that close. I also had the Longhorns beating Georgia by six. You're supposed to. 29 to 23, I think, was my final score I called. And it was 30 to 15. Yeah, not great. And I had the under, but I didn't have the under 56 and a half.

Let me ask you this. If Texas and Georgia played 10 times, I could see it going five each direction. Texas got punch in the mouth and recovered. I would say they would win four of them at this point. Okay. But here's a God feeling. Those two teams will play each other again this season. Okay.

Texas. Could be either in a SEC championship game or it could be in a playoff, but you will see Texas and Georgia play again. Okay. What else you got? Oh, my daughter. How many games do the Rockets win? 80. No.

Can I say 48? I like it. I don't think it's happening, but I like it. 43 and a half the total? Because if I think they're better than what the, the Vegas book is saying, then I've got to make it, I can't say, well, Vegas says 43 and a half, so I think they're going to win 45.

I mean, that's what I'm going to say. I'm going to go 48 and 34 for the Rockets issue. They can go under, Matt. 48 wins for the Rockets. Yeah. I think if you're a 50-win team, you're a rarefied error, and I just don't know if there are 50 wins. But see, here's a thing.

Last year was how many? How about this? I'm going to put this down. This will be one you have to keep for several months. They're going to make a significant trade. At the deadline. Rockets? Yes.

In the positive or in the next? Like, trading in assets or trading out assets? Since I think they're going to win 48 games, I'm going to say it's for the positive. Wow. Significant trade at the deadline. I mean, you're wild for all this, but I like it. I have to have glass half full on this one. This is the glass is spilling over.

It's not that. Now, glass is spilling over if I said 55. Your cup of optimism is runneth over, running a thing over. I think they're going to finish comfortably in the process. playing in tournament. Please. This organization just bet on Alpi and Jalen Green to make those leaps. And if they make those leaps, this team will be in the playing.

They will be over 43 and a half. Yeah. So you know what? I'm with you. I'm not going to go on 48. I'm not going crazy deadline deals and all that. You're just going to say over 43 and a half. I'm saying 45.

Okay. 45 and 37? Probably get you 9 or 10 in the West. 45 plus playing team. Okay. I'm going to say 48 and you're not top six. Seven or eight. I'm going somewhere in seven through ten.

Okay. Are you ready to make projections who the NBA champions are going to be? Not in this moment. Okay. I said this a couple of weeks ago as I got feeling. I'm ready to convert it. Go ahead and to put my name on it. Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

You don't do that very off. I'm the one usually puts my name on things. Jalen Green's having the best offensive season in his career. I'm ready. They just paid him up. Let's go. He had a step back at the beginning of last year. He was great the last several months.

He just got paid. He's ready to go. He's finishing in traffic better than he ever has, at least in this preseason. I am going with it. Jalen green, best offensive season in his career. Italicize it underlining. Do whatever you got to do. Put it in quotations.

I'll put it on the file. All right. I got other stuff on that file. Connor, you've been quiet. What do we got from you in the old Missouri prediction chart? I'll say Mizzou upsets Alabama's homecoming Oh, let's go You are high

No, it's happening They just lost Tennessee They're down, their season's over I got one for you Alabama wins by at least 13 Oh man 13's not terrible I did that

Wait a minute You just said they're gonna beat the Alabama They will but I mean I won't be If they get blown out I'll cry You're gonna cry I think they're blown out Because then we have no shot

When they got blown up by the Aggies I mean no Not in public You wanted to You're on a while the games are there You can't get any more games this year. The last time I really wanted to cry was when Damian Lillard made that shot against the Rockets in the playoffs.

I almost cried. I think I did a three-hour post-game show that. That sucked. I was on Astros post-game that night because nobody wanted to work. All right. So I've got Missouri, I got Alabama winning by 13. That's rude. Spread is 13 and a half, Matt.

Yeah. So is that a, you're calling a Mazoo cover? No, go above it. I'll take Alabama giving a 13 and a half. That is rude. Okay. All right. What else you get?

Anything else from you, Connor? Rockets defeat the Hornets by at least 15. Whoa! And they'll beat the Grizzlies on Friday and then split the two games in San Antonio, so they'll start the season three and one. I'll take three and one. Texans cover the eight, I mean the six versus Colts. I'll back you up on that.

Look at you. Yeah. I don't know if you picked them to cover all year. Yeah, I got... No, I had him covering against New England, too. Okay. Personal one, Carly Thomas, needs 28 assists tonight to get to 1,000. That feels like...

Is that a lot? It seems like a very high number. You're going Scotty Skyles on us. It's more than she would normally would get in it per game. Okay. But she's going to lock in. The problem is, if we beat them in three sets, it's going to be super hard to get them in three sets. We'd have to go to a fourth or fifth set, and that would make everybody nervous.

Let's hurry up. So I will say she'll get her 1,000 assists Friday. when they take, when Kingwood volleyball takes on Summer Creek. Oh, is that C-A-R-L-Y? C-A-R-L-Y. Gets a thousand-th assist Friday night against Summer Creek. All right, I will predict that Carly does not get her thousandth assist. Really?

Really. What? You are a flat, awful human being. You said it was going to be hard. No, I'm talking about, but she'll get it by Friday. She's going to try to get it tonight. No, I'm saying, oh, I'm saying she's not getting it tonight. Okay. I wanted to get it tonight.

Oh, you're saying, so you're saying she gets it by the end of the next week. I'm saying she's getting it by front. I don't know if she's going to get it tonight. I think it's going to go three sets and it's going to be done. Yeah, I don't think she gets it tonight. No disrespect to see you king. I just, you know, the way I've been breaking it down, just doesn't seem like she's getting it tonight. You're awful. Another one. Texas covers against Vanderbill, by the way.

They will be making... I'm staying away from any Texas prediction the rest of the year. I'm out. They will make amends for their embarrassing loss to Georgia, where they embarrass themselves and the culture that is University of Texas. By the way, Quinn Ewers did not speak to the media yesterday when he normally does on Mondays. Did Arch?

Hashtag cranky. Yeah. Well, he spoke to the media after the game. And he was on, I heard him on the post game show with Craig Way. Really? Yeah. Did Craig go through his entire junior high and elementary day? Yeah, he talked about his javelin throw in eighth grade. That's nice.

713-212-5-790. Ray, what is in your gut this afternoon? Thanks for calling. Well, this is kind of a sad gut feeling, but I think this is what Kelvin Sanson's last year with the Cougars. Oh. But only because we're going to win the national championship. Oh. And he rides off into the sunset. Yeah, I think it's going to be a special year for the Cougars.

I'm really fired up about it. I invited you to go to Vegas. Vegas is still open. Thanksgiving week. I got Rockets games. I would go. Are you kidding me? Five days in Vegas?

I'd go. Yeah. You can spend it. been with my son, you know, the butt-to-but or whatever you all want to do. Yeah, butt-to-but. Excuse me? Make sure you don't go like Kike Hernandez and go tip to tip. Yeah, yeah.

And also, the Aggies are going to be liquored up this Saturday, and they're going to beat the LSU by 10, at least. Oh, LSU by 10. LSU by 10. We'll have to get Chris. If Chris Gordy is here, it usually takes off after putting it in a hard of three-hour day. He'll have, maybe he's got a prediction on the LSU-N-M game. I got an oddball question.

Connor McGovern. Go ahead. When your team is the Mizzou Tigers, and you play the Auburn Tigers and the LSU Tigers, don't you kind of think like, you know what, our mascot name is kind of lame? Yeah, but Truman, Truman the Tiger is the best one. Okay. Truman's the best. I know LSU has an actual tiger.

Like when the Eagles play the Eagles, like there's like 17 teams. Who has the best dance team of the three? Tell the truth. The Mizzou's golden girls are pretty, are pretty spectacular. The Golden Girls? Yeah. What was it, a Betty White,

in Ruma? climbing hand out there? They put on gray wings. It's called the Golden Girls, but the Golden Sponsored by Ben Gay, I believe. Which of the three schools Oh, is the Golden Girls? Okay. Have the best female recruits that help out with high school recruits come to town.

The Welcome to Campus Squad. Like at University Houston, they're called Cougar Crouters. Mm-hmm. No, they're recruiting. They're crutin hard. Excuse me? And fast. You don't even know.

Those are lovely young lady just bouncing around town, been out. Oh, they're bouncing. Okay. Speaking of bouncing, I'm going to go check on, Taylor. Come back. If you got a gut feeling, 713, 212-5-790, 7-1-3-212-5-7-90. Quality Quality Home Products of Texas are installing Generic standby generators, and they would like for you to buy one from them. And here's the crazy part. So many people are doing that by going to Quality-TX.com or calling 713 Quality. The quality home products of Texas are looking for people like electricians and plumbers to come work for them. Would you like to get an opportunity for career growth? Would you like proud big time training programs? Would you like paid holidays and

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Is this odd? Yeah, it's on. I'm here every day. I know. We just tease because we care. We have, I believe, the consensus from our. audience is A&M by 7. Is that right? Is that what you're hearing on the streets? No, spread's been two and a half. I think it's A&M by 15. I believe, yeah. Now, oh, I'm seeing

a late Vegas coming in, 17 point from A&M's spread on this. Give me LSU. That's the line. Goodness. All right, so what do you got? Give us your breakdown. You going out there? I think I am going up there. Tickets are harder to get to this. I don't know what's hard to get tickets to. Taylor Swift and New Orleans this weekend. I have those. LSU versus A&M. I had those too. And any Aggies out there when I invite me to a tailgate. I'll come over and you spend the night with my son Your beverage

That sounds weird to say I mean he's got an apartment That is a weird He lives right next to Bluebell Park All right fine Offer was there I think I'm past this a couple years ago I used to be the kind of guy

I would sleep on somebody's couch I think I'm past that point in my life I don't think I would think so Once you get past 30 you can't do that anymore Well you sleep on the couch here sometimes I do I do Unless other people are in there

Like Stan Norfleet Doing God knows what in there So you want the real analytical answer? I want the 45 second breakdown of LSU A&M like a muda. So this is two strengths, Matt. This is strength on strength. This is A&M. They're number two in rushing in the SEC. LSU is

number two in passing in the SEC. Two different approaches to how they're going to play. Garrett Nussmeyer, the least sacked quarterback in the country. It was only sacked twice. It was in the South Carolina game. Every other game this year, they have kept him upright and he's been untouched. Texas A&M, though, the offense has gotten

going under Connor Wegman. A little bit of concern, though. He threw a couple of interceptions last week at Mississippi State, but the defense is playing very well, very active up front for A&M. LSU's defense has come on in the last couple weeks. They absolutely stymied Bobby Petrino in that Arkansas offense last week at Fayetteville.

So it's good on good. Doesn't surprise me that A&M is about a two and a half point favorite. That's just for being at home at this right LSU. LSU would be slightly favored. So it's good on good. SEC supremacy. The winner of this game will be undefeated in the conference moving forward. The lone undefeated in the SEC.

And your final score will be? I think I'm going to go LSU 2724. And then can you give me a make me feel better about the Longhorns this weekend? 18 and a half. Diego Pavia is playing very well. Clark Lee took over play calling duties on defense. And he's had some great schemes here the last couple weeks. But Pavia's a player, man.

He's going to score some points in that Longhorn defense. Question is, can they force him into a couple mistakes, turnover or two? I'm just talking to you Chris Feimbaum. Seriously. No, I love a Fymbom. Fine Bomb can't even break down a game. He couldn't even tell you who Vanderbilt's starting wide receivers are. I can give you that.

Who are they? You've got Eli Stowers came home from New Mexico State. Jerry Kill and Tim Beck brought that offense over from New Mexico. Tim Beck's an offensive coordinator. There's a couple of Tim Bex. God, seriously. I've listened to Feimbaum's show for a couple minutes here and there. It's just people, really bizarre people rambling, calling and screaming, talking about other callers.

Well, it's been 20 for 20 years. It's obviously doing okay. Where's a longhorn Scott and Aggie Doug? We've got to get them back on the line. Aggie Doug? He's always wanted me to listen to his podcast. Longhorn Scott, I don't know what he's doing. Longhorn Scott, who knows?

I'm heard from Longhorn Doug back in the day used to call. Yeah, we used to have a lot of Longhorn, but you know what? They're always busy throwing water bottles getting fined, embarrassing their campus. That was the student section, Matt. Yeah, when Matthew McConaughey has to come out and release a poll. public statement. Yeah, can we get Adam Clinton to read that statement? Did he really? Oh, yeah, he did. What did he said? He's like, well, that's not class. That's not Texas class. A bogey move is what he said. Yeah. He just came out with a statement how it wasn't a class move.

He called himself the M.O.C., though. Yeah. Minister of Culture. McConaughey? Yeah, he's got a title with the athletic department. It's ridiculous. Thanks, Gordy. That was good stuff right there. All right. U of H. H over Utah. Let's go. Your mouth of God's ears. What's a line on that one. I haven't even checked. Hold on. I can't. Well, I got to get off the top 25 tab because they're not top of 25, so hold on and give me a second here. Uh-huh. Let me get the bottom

25 tab here. We're not bottom 25. I mean, we're not certainly top, but I think we're 26. It's only Utah minus 3 and a half. Yeah. Cam Rising's in the lab getting the second doctorate. It's good. I think Camerizing's 36 years old and getting both arms amputed to put

a new bionic elbows on. I believe he committed to either Tom Herman or Charlie Strong at UT. I believe he committed to, I believe, Bear Bryant in his final year at Alabama. I think, no. Let's see, Texas 2018, I think that was Tom Herman. Okay, well, our Cougars will carry the state banner this Saturday against Utah. Okay.

I will not be there. I'll be in San Antonio with the Rockets. What? I know. Maybe that's what they mean. Maybe they don't need me at a game. I've been to every game so far this year. maybe a little

a little downtown, a little wave, you know, just a little rest. Tickets are cheap. Yeah, we'll have specials later this week for you. I think we're giving them some away during. I heard 15 bucks in the spot we were running. I like it.

With the cougar going. Hashtag great value. Yeah. 15 bucks. Come watch Cougars get beat. Let's go. That's not nice. Uh-uh.

Okay. Not good. 713-2-1-790. 7-1-3-212-5-7-9. We've got the NFL Rewan coming up in just a couple of minutes. What is believe it or not today? I don't know. By the way, I think Roy is what was listening to our show.

You think so? First of all, he followed me on Twitter like 20 minutes ago. Okay. Is he in town? And then he puts out on Twitter, just like 15 minutes ago, sign Bregman back. Bring Bregman back. In all caps. When a professional athlete goes all caps.

He did that at 1255. We were talking about it right around that. Roy, if you're listening to you. First of all, we loved having you on the show a few weeks ago. Yes, thank you. Second of all, you were one of my favorite pitchers because A, you won a lot and B, you pitched in fast games. Third of all, you followed Matt, but you didn't follow me at Sports RV. Roy, you really did yourself a solid by not following sports RV.

Matt is just going to tweet about his daughter playing volleyball and waste your time. Not sure. How bad his fantasy team is, which nobody cares. They do care. I got a lot of empathy from people out there. And by the way, I'm so done. I scored 60. Matt, come on.

60 points. Get a bounce back. Hit them waivers, baby. Let's go. I'm done. I've totally checked out. You got injuries? Everybody's got injuries. Come on. Wow. We need you. No, you don't need me.

Yes, we do. We literally had to get people who haven't been employed here in years to fill the league this year. Okay, well, it's time to lower the dollar value and get some more people in. Get the comments. Get some listeners involved. We're going to get some people from way back on here. We're going to have to invite Charlie Polillo and David Dukes to the league now. Carl Dukes. Oh, Carl Dukes.

I don't think we want David Dukes there. I mean, I guess we could, but that'd be really odd. I invited Ted DeLuca to the league. This is how bad it's getting, Matt. You got to stay. You are so inside baseball. Can I tell you, can I, you know what? Screw it.

I'm going to peel the curtain back. This is December of 2009. I'm trying to figure out which, I'm going to come back to Houston. Either I'm going to work for here or 610. Okay. So I would listen to their morning show. I think it was DeLuca and John Lopez. Yes. And they would do us...

Well, there was monsters in the morning. That was after we let go the men's room, which was Craig Roberts and Carl Dukes. The worst name for a sports show I've ever heard in my life. Hey, let's go to the men's room. This smells like a horse's barn. So DeLuca and Lopez would do a segment, a show. Then they would take a couple of hours of a break, and then they would come back. They would do six to eight. This is when the morning show was fired. They used to do the monsters in the midday.

they did 11 to 2. So they would do 6 to 8. Dan Patrick would come on, because I was working, these shows, 8 to 11, and then they would come back on 11 to 2. So one day,

and then Charlie would do 2 to 7. So one day I was, one day I was listening. And they came back in the afternoon around the 11 o'clock, whatever was. And they basically recorded what they said. Yes.

And they replayed it for 11 o'clock. I did that. They would have me record, or whoever, it was Al Farb was there working to. I would record the opening segment and then replay it the third hour, and they would just go do whatever for 20 minutes. That is crazy.

Repeating the exact same thing. People would call in and complain. People would call. I would pick up the phone, Forsox 790, hey man, why are y'all replaying from the first part of the show? I was like, what do I say? I was like, uh, what did you say? I was like, that's just what we do here in the third hour?

I don't know. Mm-mm. That's crazy. So I was like, you know what? It's starting at rock bottom. I can probably bring it up a little bit. And that's the reason why I came to 790. Oh, man.

That is hysterical. That is absolutely hysterical. All right, 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Ross's NFL Run Rewind is coming up after I tell you about how the best way to spend time watching sports. And that's winning at sports with Un-Ewen. Underdog Fantasy. They have an opportunity for you to win some serious cash, no matter what sport you like, whether

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What up, what up? That's what I am. Real pale Texans talk continues on the Matt Thomas show. What up? What up? All right, time now for Ross's NFL rewind. If you get bored by this, Taylor is making a sonorin dog. Are you serious?

What? Go ahead. What is this woman? What is this? She's eating a hot dog. Extremely talented woman doing. She's not going back that dog right there. Look at that.

Got a lot of toppings on there. Okay. She's got her hooters out, I assume. No, it's hot dogs, not wings. Okay. All right. Now it's time for the rewind. Here's Ross.

I don't even, you know what? Let's just get right to it. Last night in Tampa Bay, my goodness, Lamar Jackson. Three receiver. is left. Bateman alone to the right. Lamar in this shotgun on fourth and three takes the snap. Buckspring blitz pressure. Lamar to the end zone. Touchdown Mark Andrews. Lamar Jackson with his fourth passing touchdown of the night. Well it end up being five, 17 completions,

five of them for touchdowns, only five incompletions. So just as many touchdowns is incompletions, which is insane. Derek Henry in for 170 yards. Lamar Jackson, pretty darn good, right, John Harbaugh? You know, I think we'll just keep it like, we're just going to keep approaching every week, one week

at a time, one game at a time, one play at a time, because that's what he's doing. You know, and he's doing it at a high, high, high level. You know, and I'm proud of him. I'm happy for him. He's a great leader, and he's a great player. Great player. But we've got a game next week against the Browns, and we've got

bring our best and that's what he's thinking about. Lamar Jackson, favorite for MVP. Baltimore Ravens, I guess the defense gives me pause, but right now playing as good as anybody in football. Baker Mayfield's having a good season too, so I mean, not surprised Tampa they put up 31 now. His number one and two targets

just went down too. Yeah, but they all are still in very, to go on the road and put up 41 points, that's very impressive. Yeah, Baltimore Ravens playing as good as anybody in football. Speaking of quarterbacks, Let's keep it in Pittsburgh. The Steelers fans, very critical of Mike Tomlin for switching horses midstream to Russell Wilson.

Well, Russell Wilson looking pretty good. Wilson gets the snap. Looking, looking, firing has Jefferson touchdown. Pittsburgh Steelers. All right, Matt. So kind of a forgotten team. We've been talking about Baltimore, Kansas City, putting the Texans in the mix, other teams in the AFC.

Where do you feel like the Steelers are that? Defense is playing great, and Russell Wilson showing on Sunday, they still got a little gas left in the tank. Kansas City 1, Pittsburgh 2, Houston 3. Well, Baltimore, you forgot Baltimore. I'm sorry, Kansas City 1, Baltimore to Houston 3. Okay. Bills?

Bills for Steelers 5. I don't think if Buffalo and Pittsburgh would have played, but Buffalo wins seven times out of 10. Really? Yeah. just from a high-octane offensive standpoint. Hmm. Man, that's tough.

The Steelers have, I thought with Justin Fields, I thought it was the right move. His stats were very good, but he wasn't seeing throws down the field. Some of those throws that Russell Wilson was making to George Pickens were far better than what Justin Fields was doing this season. So I think the right move,

the right move, but speaking of Buffalo, they themselves got a new weapon. Honestly, it's just trusting my feet trust in my arm. It's one of the, I think, the pros of having a stronger arm, if you will, where you got a guy that's open. And, you know, on that little quick fade route, I threw it to him. He did such a good job of his release and he gained a lot of separation. I just kind of just trusted my, stress of my arm and just try to throw it in there as really as firmly as I could. And he made a heck of a play.

Josh Allen on Amari Cooper, the new weapon for Josh Allen, making quite the statement. Okay, the Titans are terrible, and Mason Rudolph was starting. but 34 to 10, a trouncing of the Tennessee Titans. Schedule? Not super difficult coming up. Seahawks, Dolphins, and Colts, but they do play the Chiefs on November 17th and the Niners after that.

Where are we out on the Buffalo Bills, Matthew? Buffalo Bills are the fourth best team in the AFC. And I would have named them third, but you have to go head-to-head. I think the Texans and Bills are very comparable, but you have to give the tie-breaker to Houston because they won the game. Head-to-head.

You know it was at home. I thought the Texans way outplayed the bills in that game. Should not have come down to the last second field goal, but it did. It did. And they won. Yeah. But if you hold Josh Allen to a quarterback rating of 15 or whatever it was, he was 9 of 30 in that game, I think.

For 133 yards. He was harassed the entire time. Mario Edwards will be back at some point. He was chasing him down a lot. As a Houston Texans realist, I realized they were very good that day. They were. They were. Not so much on Sunday.

I'll tell you, it was very good on Sunday against the number one defense in the land? Well, Detroit Lions didn't seem to have too much trouble scoring on him. Jake Bates with a 44-yard attempt, Hashmark right side to give the Lions the lead. He's ready. There's the snap. There's the spot. Kick away.

It is up. And it is good. Jake Bates sends it through. With 15 seconds to go, the Lions have taken the lead. It is Detroit 31 and the Vikings 29. Ice water in veins. clash of Titans over the weekend. Now we're still wondering about that

Lions defense without Aiden Hutchinson because Sam Darnold and the boy, they scored 29. They got to pick six, so they still scored over 20 points. But maybe not as complete team as they were with Aidan Hutchinson, but Lions still NFC favorites? Yes. Although I was very impressed to have

Philadelphia beat up on the Giants this past week. Now the Giants aren't great. No, they're not. But Philadelphia went in there and never loved the Giants even play a game. Don't sleep on the Eagles. Eagles. NFC significantly more competitive than the AFC. Coin flip in the NFC.

Detroit. Here's my pecking order. Detroit. Minnesota? No. I'm going to Minnesota, too, personally. Detroit. Philly. Where do you put Washington in there? What's going on with James? San Francisco.

Minnesota. Washington. Green Bay. Speaking of San Francisco, maybe off the Green Band top of Washington. San Francisco, three and four on the young season, Matthew. That'll be fine. First and ten at the Niner, 18-yard line.

Here comes the end-to-round on a Jeff sweep. It goes to Hardman, cuts it back, and kills under the end. McCull Hardman. Rushie Rice goes down. Juju Smith-Schuster tried to start that game. He got hurt as well. Sure, let's turn to Mikul Hardman. Kansas City Chiefs getting it done with the 28-18 win in San Francisco,

a perfect 6-0. shake you to start the season. Four straight, one score wins. Two straight, two score wins. And impressive wins on the road. I put so much value in teams going on the road no matter how ugly it is in winning games. Give them credit.

I think we have to. Raiders, Buccaneers, Broncos, then at the bills coming up for the Kansas City. They will not go 17 or no, as I didn't put... It was one of my to tell the truth yesterday. But I can see them going 14 and 3. 14 and 3? 14 and 3? and try to go beat Kansas City in January.

I dare you. Have you seen our good friend Patrick Mahomes's stats from this year? They're pedestrian. Six touchdowns, eight interceptions. But great rushing yards, getting first downs, staying in bounds, maybe to his detriment. Current turn level of him, one out of ten? Zero.

Zero. Okay. Weapons aren't great over there. No. And they're getting worse. Travis Kelsey's old Xavier Worthies I mean you can streak it down the field to him

But he's not running the full route to read He reminds me right now What Tom Brady had to deal for most of his career in England Good receivers, not great ones And a really good tight-in But also a tight-in that's Not what he wants He's 35 years old now

And he's sleeping with the richest woman on earth Yeah his hamstrings are getting tired every week How are your hammies From running up and down the field Mine are great Well, a little sore I'm getting old I was just watching TV

TV last night and I stood up in my ankle locked up. Yeah, you're aging terrible. I'm like, why is my ankle locked up? I didn't even do anything. Your hair's all gray. Your hair's all gray. You see what working next to you every day is done to me? That's why you got to shave it off. Yeah, I don't think so. A lot of freedom.

All right, anything else? I think I good. That's your NFL rewind, Matt. Let me tell you something. That was a highly entertaining segment. I don't know people are on the NFL and I'm at on this station and this audience. We did rush or flush. We got like seven rushes. Yeah, I mean, I'm some saying. We do a good job.

We don't just berate you with crazy-ass-dats. We put sound bites in. We play, put by play. At the very least, with the Beethoven. Yeah, if you can't enjoy life with the Fifth of Beethoven, what can you enjoy? Exactly. We got to find, like, great 70s disco songs every week. You want to mix it up?

Go to like a fly, Robin Fly. We could also go instrumental. Do the hustle. Do the hustle is good. Love's theme? The Billy Preston, out of space or whatever. The entertainer. It's a little too.

I thought we're trying to keep it 70s funk. Disco insurmentals. By the way, a new channel on Sirius XM. Okay. Yacht Sol. Just throwing it out there. Okay. No?

No. Do you press? I didn't make the channel up. All is well. Sirius XM can't hurt you. It's not real. Oh, my God. George Bent's on there prominently.

143 on sports talk. seven daddy. Terrible. Welcome, good afternoon. The best sports lunch in H-town. Matt's really smart. He works hard. He has a good grasp of players.

He's been around the game. You love him. We love him. So excited for the opportunity that Matt has in front of him for sure. This is the Matt Thomas show. We will honor Alperin Shingoon and Jalen Green at the top of the hour.

What about unbelieve it or not? Have we ever done an Alpian, believe it or not? I think so. I'm sure they were drafted. Yeah, go to the best of collection. All right. Nick is surreal, obviously a big fan of us. Has never been on the show in all the years he's been here.

Was he talking about Matt Schaub at that point? I don't care. No, he was not. Play this sound about again. He doesn't know you exist. Play the sound by again. Let's see if it's me or somebody else. He's looking for it. Coming up.

Nick Cassario wasn't here. He was... Go ahead. Welcome, good afternoon. The best sports lunch in each town. Matt's really smart. He works hard. He has a good grasp of players.

He's been around the game. You love him. We love him. So excited for the opportunity that Matt has in front of him for sure. This is the Matt Thomas show. Tell me what's not true. Works hard? No, I have good grasp of players?

Yeah. All right. So, Aaron Wilson was on the Chris Gordy show featuring Stan Norfleet. Okay. He thinks that Nick's going to seriously kick the tires on making a trade. Do we have a quote on that? No. Oh.

I mean, he doesn't think it's going to happen, but he thinks. I'm paraphrasing. Well, our website was he wouldn't rule it out. Yeah, but I mean, you could say that every year. Yes. I mean, any general manager that does not put the test. time in to go try to find somebody who's not doing his organization any service. It was one of my to tell the truth yesterday.

I just think it's super hard to make a trade that's going to absolutely change the complexity of your team. What was it when you said was true? Dodgers and five? Dodgers and five. Okay. I'm hoping because the Rockets vice president of basketball operations is such a Yankees honk that I want. I'm rooting for the Dodgers so hard just so I can thumb it in his nose. That's good.

At the end of the day, one of the worst fan bases in the league is going to be sad. So that's good. Who's got a worst fan base? Man, it's, I mean... Here's one. One drops F-bombs constantly. Yeah.

One has an... Olly or Frasier. One has an obnoxious accent. Wait, they both have a... Well, kind of... One has huge cholesterol issues. Well, that feels like both. One has don't shave and don't manicure and probably take showers in the daily.

Okay. Then on the other side, you have people that have criminal records that go to games wearing bracelets around their ankles. Neck tats. Neck tats. Drive cars are at least 15 to 20 years old. What's wrong with that? Come on. What?

You know me should be driving a car that's 15 years old. Why not? Not safe. It's not safe. Hey, man, I'm going to ride my jaw up until the wheels fall off, Matt. not everybody's making that fancy mat money You see how much car loans are these days? No, no, no, no, that's why you go to Shell FCU, but thanks for the plug on that one.

There's nobody that should be driving a vehicle from 2009. I'm sorry. 2009? It's not that bad. I see people in their 90s for sales. You do not. You're making that out. Oh, you know, drive of the city?

I do drive a lot. I was going to say you can go out of the streets. I drive everywhere. All right, I'm not asking right now. I'd like for have two people call the show right this second that are driving a car in 2009. From 2009? Or earlier. 2009 or earlier if you're driving a car from then tell us what it is how many miles you have on it has on it

yeah 713 212 5 790 713 212 570 if you're driving a vehicle 2009 or earlier we appreciate you getting this on your a m radio and thank you for that and ultimately why are you doing it hey i'd still be there could be a certain segment population that's just i love this car so much that i'm going to keep putting money into it yeah what if it's a classic. I don't think a Maza 626 would be a classic. You don't think so? I don't think so. That's your opinion. Beauty is in the eye of the

car holder. What was wrong with you? What? Oh, look at Jimmy. Jimmy and Tombo, you do not drive a 2009. You don't know that? No, they're going to make it up. These are people that are making it up. I'm not driving a 2009 vehicle. Why not? Oh, look. Five lines are lit up. Let's go. People are making this up. High horse, Matt is out of touch. I'm not high horse. horse Matthew, fancy Matt is out of touch.

No, no. Look, every line is taken right now. No, no. The phone lines are ringing off the hook. All right, I was going to do a couple here. Okay. Cliff, what are you driving? 2008 toward Tacoma with $235,000.

That's nice. Those old tacos are tough, man. And that's your primary vehicle. Been driving nonstop every day. Just put gas in it. I always say, for every job of maintenance I put into it, I've got to get 800 miles per dollar. So I just spent 500 last week on some shops and stuff.

So that's going to give me another 40,000 miles before I do anything else to. Oh, yeah. 235,000 miles. Those Toyota Tacomas will run until they're a million miles. One of the high before this, I had 400,000 and my brother's driving it now. See? What is wrong with you, Cliff? I worry about your safety.

You're a true American hero. High horse, Matt, is that a touch? I'm not high horsing. It's not eye horsing. High horsing would be if you said 2021. That'd be a high horse. I'm saying, Cliff, can I get you, can I help you out? Let me write you cut you a check of some sort.

I want you safe out there. I want you to listen to show for the rest of your life. I don't want you in a 2000. I'm doing well for myself. I just don't want you in 2008 cars. That doesn't make me feel safe for you. This is, people I have offered to buy it for me every day on the job site. Thank you, Cliff.

All right, Cliff. You're doing great work out there. Appreciate you. Toyota Tacomas, Tocomas, built tough, Maddie. Jimmy, what are you driving? I am currently cruising down the road in my 2000 F-250 with a 7.3-liter diesel engine, and it's got 443,000. $2,000. Are you serious?

Are you serious? I would send you a picture if I do have to, but absolutely it. Get them, Tim. Get them, Jimmy. How do you even live? Freezing cold AC. It pulls all my trailers. It does everything I need.

I love it. People stop you at the gas station want to buy it from you. They love these old diesels with the 7-30 engine. Damn. Man. All right. You know what? We got to get you guys some new vehicles.

You got to take the L on this, Maddie. I'll, I'll take the L. We still got everybody. Let's go. We've got to get a few more people here. If I would have said, no one cross-dresses, then I would have said, if you're a cross-dresser, I'd have six people calling. Oh, so people who drive old cars are like cross-dressers in your mind.

No, no. I'm just saying that you. Wow. First of all, what's wrong with that, Matt? First of all, look, if you want to put on some pumps and some fish nets in your own home, I don't care. This is what we call it a classic radio bit. You say something's not going to happen, and you have six people calling them and say they do. We have more.

More. They're pouring in, Matthew. We're going to get y'all some new vehicles. Chris, what are you driving? 06 Ford's F-150, $230,000. Let's go. Y'all are a humble bragging, aren't you? These are all trucks still going.

All right, thanks, Chris. Good for you, Chris. Keith, what are you driving? I got a 2007 year, 350. Two fellas. And I commute from Southside of Houston, Berkshire, a mile that's the week. I think that's our phones.

That's our fault. Thank you, Keith. I think that's our phones. Yeah. Look at these. You said 2007 something. Look, the phones are constantly. We should be doing car talk.

Forget sports radio. Yeah, we'll do. It's like a car swap, car parts. Hey, I got a carburetor for a two, 2004 F-150 power stroke. What is your vehicle? My vehicle? Yeah.

That I drive? Yeah. It's a 2017. That's not bad. I'm riding into, I'm, I want to be with these people. I'm definitely afraid. You think I want a car payment in this economy for the next 10 years? No.

I'm definitely afraid of our audience getting hurt in these old vehicles. They're fine, Matt. If you maintain your cars, they run. Damn, nine years old. Oh, no, and I say 15 years old. Yeah. All right. We got full board.

Why aren't these people calling about the Texans? Why don't they call about the Rockets? Because they're calling you out for kind of trash them for having all the cars. I'm not trashing them. I just said I don't think it was happening. You said you didn't think it was happening and you said that you needed to fix them into cards. Watch this. I don't think anybody in our listening audience is a crossdresser.

High horse mat. Let me ask this person. Felipe, do you wear women's clothing, Felipe? Definitely not. I'm not going to dress like Rock. Like, what? What? I'm not going to dress like Ross.

Oh. What's wrong with that? What if I am a cross dresser, Felipe? These fish nets are quite comfy. No, I, I, you are. And I drive a 2002 F-250 diesel power stroke. I got 500. I'm with Jimmy, man.

Right now, $5009,000. $5,000. Damn, y'all. Let's go. Half a million. You know, we ought to do, we have like a car club. We got to have, we got to see who has more than five. We should do like a, who can set the record?

Who's got more than 500,000 now, of course, so you have to be honest. Yeah, honestly is overrated. I've got two million on my Studebaker, 1937. Yeah, now that classic cars are different. If you got like a 74 Corvette or something like that, I get that. But, man, you know what I have noticed on these callers here? We're going to take car calls.

Is that people are just, are proud of their, of their mileage. They are. These people are beaming with problems. their cars and you tried to put them down I didn't put them down I just didn't think it was going to be happening out there but like I said I can say anything and six people would call and say something okay

like I can say you know how you always talk about people hate the McRibb I can get six people to call and say I love the McRib okay I just gave you a radio bit I'm a little 101 for y'all all right you were wrong I'll take the L I'm okay with that

see that's the thing difference between me and you is that when I'm wrong I will fully admit it yeah Connor the waiting to be wrong. Connor, when Ross is wrong, what is he doing? He becomes defiant. That's not true. Deligerent.

I was wrong about the Longhorns winning. I said that. We said that in gut feelings. Mm-hmm. No, I think the evidence is there. I was wrong about the Texans winning as well. When you're, when you think you're right about something, you don't listen to other people's opinion. I'm wrong every day.

I am probably more. Yeah, I would definitely agree with that. All right. 159 on the Matt Thomas show, or car talk. 713, 212. Car talk. We're the car pros now. What you're calling in for?

I got a seven. 79 Chvette. I'll give you 17-5. 83 Gremlin? I'll give you an 83. We moved to Houston. My dad had a Gremlin, and he had no air conditioning. Because we were living in Detroit, and cars in the air-conditioned back then.

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Lunch timers, this is the Matt Thomas show. All right, here we go. We're going to knock out these quick car calls. How many, what's your mileage, what's your year and you're making your model? Let's go. All right. Between Ross and Matt, who can change a tire the fastest? The answer is Ross.

Connor's, Connor the Dark Horse, no chance. I don't know. Connor, can you change a tire? I can. I had two on Friday because I blew a flat tire on the way here. Oh, I'm not. That's not me. Yeah, Matt's calling somebody.

Fancy Matt will call someone. Let's be fair, I did call AAA, but they were going to be like an hour. Matt strikes me as a person doesn't know how it needs oil. That's not true. I checked the oil life on my car constantly. Good job, Matt. Let's see here I can't drive an 09 or earlier

But this grown man can blast 70s on 7 And have the top dropped In a pink VW Beetle convertible First of all the convertible is Yellow Second of all Ross is in the car with me Would you call it Canary? I don't know what I'd call it

I'd call it expensive But paid for I thought you got a good deal on it I did get a great deal But I did so on it's driving that around Yeah that's good Do you get worried No I did what I did

I did put a back camera in there And I got her a new system sort of navigation so she's in a good Okay, great. Remember when you and I used to drive that thing around? I mean it happened once I think, but it was funny. We took pictures in it. It was very good. In the VW. Beetle convertible.

She likes it. No, it's nice. I'm not hating. I mean, for a 16-year-old to get that? She's a good spot. Yeah, okay. I didn't have a car when I was 16, so she's doing great. Yeah. It's not a new car, but it didn't have 148,000 miles on it. Yeah.

Not that there's anything wrong with that. Clearly, there's nothing wrong with it. Clearly, we're doing okay. Yeah, let's go to Ronnie. Ronnie, Ronnie, what did you driving? Man, I have a 2004 mini Cooper S that I bought in October of 2003. And Ross, she had a good idea about most mileage. What about the other side of it?

What about the least amount of mileage? I have 105,000 miles on this bad boy. Those are nice. You got the turbo? That's a good ratio. Yeah, that's a Mini Cooper S, so it's supercharged. Yeah, nice. And that's your primary vehicle?

Yes, sir. Drive it about, you know, 400, 300 miles a month. God, you, I'm so jealous. Oh, thank you for the phone call. By the way, I need something. I'm sorry to get off on the road here. This is a sports talk seven. It is, but nobody cares about the Texans right now.

I mean, clearly. You lost, so you'll be. You'll be mad about it on Monday and then you're done. Okay. I would like for Uber to create a secondary service. What is that? I hate driving. I absolutely despise driving.

Okay. I drive 37 miles every day from my house to this office. That's 75 miles a day. Okay. I would like a car service. That would be reasonable. Yeah, you can afford that. Not really.

If I Ubered every day to and from my office. Would it be? 150 bucks a day or so? Unless it'd be 100 bucks a day. That's not bad. You got that. You got that falling out of your pockets. That's $2,500 a month.

I will drive you to it from work every day for $2,500 a month. Make me a deal. You know what? I'll do it for 2 G's. Lower. I'm standing firm. How low? 1250.

1250? I need 1850. I done. But you never wake up in time. I will. for 1850. You will drive all the way to Kingwood to pick me up.

I just have to move up there. My sister lives right there. You can live with me. My sister lives off Kingwood Drive. I got spare bedroom. I got kids leaving all the time, so you're good. Larry. Larry, what you driving?

Larry? This show is one of a kind, I swear. I think Larry's gone. Last one. Oh, there he is. 2008, Kea Sedona minivan. Two hundred and eight. Can I finish or not?

Go ahead, pal. Larry, take your time. Take as much time as you want. Adios, mother. What? Adios mother? Adios mother? The Kia Sedona. Hey, Larry, you old fart, you're old, really old and stupid. That's rude. I let him finish and you wouldn't finish. Well, yeah, we tried to. We couldn't hear him at first. That's why he thought we were talking over. He's on his bag phone from 1986.

And it's keyesedona. It's keyesedona. Betty, what are you driving? 2007 F-150. Let's go. Almost 300,000 miles. And I love the McGriff. Yes, Lord.

I knew it. Two for two. I knew it. Thank you, Betty. That's a bonus right there. That's a bonus. But I'll McRib coming back soon. Why are they lying?

Because people love it. Two times ago, they said it was the last one. No, if they loved it, they would keep it on the menu, they'd be able to sell it. It's like Mahi. Mahi. People love Mahi Mahi. They just put a special. What are you talking about?

Yeah. I have not. It's not, man, my, you could not get further from the mega rib and mahi, mahi, you can ever get mahi ma'i and regular. You have to get this as a special. I don't know, Matt. I don't go to these fancy places that you're at.

Well, that's something that's your problem then. Okay, I don't see mahi mahi mahi at chilies. So I don't know what you're talking about. This is my, can you get a mahie mahi mahi. With a skillet case. I like some chips and salsa, unlimited beverage and a maimie mahi mai.

And some baby bag, baby back, baby back. And some my he my he my. I don't have Mahi Mahi. I don't know. I don't go there. I never had Mahi. It's always unspecial. Mr. Chilean Seabas, I thought, was always unspecial. All right. Oh, my God. Do you drive a car this old?

Ding. I don't think he does. He's got... No, I recently purchased a vehicle, so I cannot be in this conversation. No, you cannot. Uh-uh. Money bags, Matt. Not money bags. It's a work hard, Matt.

What difference? I didn't inherit any money from any money from any. anybody. That's the thing you continue to forget about the, you don't tell the audience. I work hard. What? Been this business for a long time, Matt. You're doing great.

We're all about you. Because I'm a man of somewhat wealth. You know, you know, you get, you know, let me enjoy my time. We appreciate you. Oh, spring chicken. No, certainly not. The depths of winter. Speaking of money.

Yes. Two people in Houston are really rich right now. Well, they're rich to begin with. Yeah. They're richer. Now they're super rich. Do I go up to Jane Lin and Alpi and say, you know, we're in San Antonio on Saturday. You can take care of lunch for me?

Do you have lunch with them? Never. Ever? Why not? For the first time? Let's go to lunch to celebrate your big contract. Okay? We can do that.

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And flush. Jaylor Green. And some more breathing room for the Rockets in downtown Houston. Bounce pass to Alpi. He'll twist, gets around Wempernyama, pump bakes once, twice, goes up, and jams it down with the right hand. Shengoon in the Battle of the Big Men, leading Wemby. All right, I'm going to give you a declarative statement.

You can agree or disagree. If the natural progression for Alpi and Jalen Greeney, Green take place. Been the league a while, have made their mistakes, know the ins and outs. This will be a very, very good contract for the Houston Rockets.

Declarative statement, you happen to agree with that? Yes. Natural progression. If they continue to improve, although Jalen Green improved in the second half of last year, Hoppern-Sing-Goon has been steadily improving. He's been really great.

Borderline All-Star, not All-Star-level but borderline. I would also say to me Shingoon has improved by more leaps and bounds but I think because of some of his physical

limitations his ceiling might be lower than greens. Jalen Green's ceiling is like all-star 30 point per game shooting guard but can he get there? Can rebound good for a two guard? Can he be a great rebounder for a two guard? I think Shingoon is going to get closer to ceiling than maybe Jalen Green could, or if I were betting, but also the ceiling to me is higher

with Jalen Green. Because Alper and Schingun is always going to have defensive limitations. He just is. We've seen it for three, four years. The way that he moves out there, he's going to have issues. But he's going to be able to pass even better, shoot better, make more free throws. All things can be absolutely true. Yes. Do I think, can you get him to at least an average defender? You hope. Kind of slow-footed on the...

the lateral movement. So it's going to be an issue. Yeah. You're not paying that money for five years for Alper and Shangoon to be a plus defender. But nor are they paying Nikola Yokic to be a plus defender either in Denver. But if he can be a 20 and 10 guy and get you 5, 6 assist

the game, that's huge. Yeah. And efficient, if he can start knocking down threes to continue to stretch defenses. If he can get to three point percentage about 34, 35%. Yeah, it'd be serviceable. Huge. League average. Yeah. What league average is around 35%.

You can be a league average there. Same thing for Jaylen Green, by the way. You can be a league average at three points. That'll be huge. I would like to get him to more to 37, 38 because he's a volume shoot. He's volume. Well, we got a lot of years of sample size so far. He hasn't gotten there yet.

So the Rockets have taken care of their two guys, one to a three-year level with Jalen Green, one to a five-year deal with Albert and Shingood. And, again, the Rockets could have given them more years and more money. Well, in Jalen's case, definitely more years. years. Yes. So then you have to ask yourself, why did Jalen Green and Alper and Shingun sign these deals? For immediate... Immediate cash. Security. Immedia security. Financial security. Alpi did really well for himself. Turning down $185 million. Not easy. Difficult to do. Yeah. I think Alpe's was

probably the easier the two decisions. He got closer to the dollar amount that he probably wanted. Jalen's got a deal for three years. They can, with inclusive player, I think the player, I in the third year. And this is also the rocket saying, as they were both going to be restricted free agents at the end of the year, that we think they would have been bid up past these levels. So we're locking them in now, projecting the growth that we're going to see from both of them. When you become a restricted free agent, you can resign your player, but you lose control of what the contract length and dollar amount is.

When you sign now, you have dictated how long and how much you want to pay. So it's a bet. Jaylen Green, Alpern Shingoon, and the Rockets all gambled here. Yeah, it's like a stock. It's like a stock. Right. You're buying on a certain level. You could have gotten it cheaper and you could have got it.

It could also be much more expensive. So I think both guys will be significantly happier. I don't think it's been an albatrosser on their neck. But I also believe there are humans and they're, you know, knowing that their other counterparts are on the NBA. We're getting deals. And they were the only one. They were two of the last players of their draft class that were getting deals. They were probably getting a little bit nervous.

And nobody wants to go into restriction because even if you, let's say that you go into your restricted year. And you're like, I'm going to show these MFers that how good I am. And let's say San Antonio, Orlando, or Denver was to offer some crazy money. The Rockets could match it. And you know what? You kind of lose your control of where you want to be. And yeah, there are going to be teams. I don't know.

I haven't looked at Cap's face of everybody. but one or two teams want to overpay for one of your guys and you're not able to match. Do you lose them for nothing? Right. So that's the reason why I think the deals were done. And again, to me, it was 50-50 whether everything get done or not. I didn't, you know, not that I'm sitting here spending a lot of time asking. Yeah, me neither, but I was a little surprised, not shocked, a little surprised.

Yeah, I'm happy. I mean, do you see the numbers you see the years? this is the core if you are going to win if you're going to make that next leap it's not going to be we love tarry easen whoever jayshon tayed and all they Reed Shepard we'll see he's a rookie

the core is going to be Jalen Green and Alpern Shingoon carrying a lot of it and then Jabari Smith a year later well hopefully yeah no disrespect to Fred Van Vleet or Dylan Brooks because I think they're a huge part of what needs to be a better basketball team than they were your own setters I'm liking this

if this works out to where Shingoon and Green make those leaps. Rafael Stone and the Rockets have played this perfectly. Yeah, I hope they have. I hope everything has worked out

because again, both guys have a lot of money in their piggy bank now. They have security. They have to worry about contracts. And Jalen, basically, by not signing the five-year deal,

is betting that maybe in two years or three years, he can go get that mega deal, especially if he makes an all-MBA team. When you start into all-MBA teams, you start making supermax. Yeah, I believe it's $200 million a year, I believe.

Isn't it crazy? Which is, I think, in theory, a flaw of the NBA system. For those of you don't know, if you make an all-MBA team, first team, second team, or third team? Third team. John Wall made a third team, and he was getting 40-whatever million a year from the Rockets. You're super, you can become a supermax player, meaning you're going to get more money than you would normally. But should the media have anything to do with your future contract status? I think it's a good idea in theory, in practice, probably not.

because there are some bias. It's like, for example, wasn't there that one year, James Harden averaged like 28, 7, and 7, and he didn't make any NBA all NBA team? Meanwhile, John Wall makes one third team and the Rockets are on the hook for $40 million contract. Right, exactly. It's kind of bizarre.

In a perfect world where the voting isn't flawed, yeah, it makes sense. Help me out. But the vote is extremely flawed. The year that John Wall, did he ever play a game for the Rockets that year? No, because he was the clipper. He played for the Rockets.

And then... One year. And then he sat out. He was a coach on the court. That one year he sat out. He made $40 million. It literally says on his basketball reference page, did not play, sat out. The year before it says did not play injury.

Now, every owner... Did not play sat out. Every owner has bad contracts. Yes. But if you are somebody like... Tillman, who everything in theory has touched, he's touched, not everything, but pretty close, everything has turned to gold.

He's made money on so many of his investments. That was a lost investment. That was literally $40 million she had to throw away. It got you cap space. That's the thing about NBA. Even the worst contracts will expire. Oh, no, they traded it for, no, they

traded it, no, they got Russell Westbrook, it was for John while they traded, and his contract expired here, right? Okay. So yeah, you get that cap space. That's valuable in the NBA because you have you have the combination of a capped league and fully guaranteed contracts. But think about this. You are giving

a contract and a paycheck every two weeks to somebody who didn't step on the practice court. Nope. Who didn't step on the court. Who travel with us occasionally, but not very often. He's just hanging out in the sidelines in a bucket hat and watching the games. He had one outfit on it

looked like he was a candy king. I was like, how you pull that off? He's working for good humor? That's the ice cream bar. Who makes great candy canes? I don't know. Brox? Sure. There's got to be a candy cane company.

It's the legend value. Great. Is that the Walmart brand of candy canes? I didn't realize, well, great value had that kind of run. Yeah. Are the H-E-B brand of candy cane delicious? Reddit says Spangler or Brocks. So you're in there, man.

I was right by Brox. That's why we call you the candy cane man. They call me Mr. Chocolate. White chocolate? No. I'm dark chocolate You know what I'm milk chocolate I'm smooth and delicious

Hmm Sure not a bunch of crunch You know what you are, you're mounds Thank you I love mounds You don't love mounds You know No forget

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If you want to follow us on Twitter, at SportsMT, at SportsRV, and at Connor D. McGovern. Real quick, baseball. Tropicana field. Did you see the roof? after the hurricane Milton?

Yeah. It looks horrible. Major League Baseball hopes to find the raise a temporary home near their fan base for at least the start of the 2025 season if the Tropicana Field roof is inoperable and can't be repaired in time. Well, the good news is there are plenty of options. The bad news is there's no crowds. Yeah, nobody's going to gum me anyways. Just play in there.

You could play at the Yankee Spring Training facility in Tampa where you could draw $8,000 a game. That's about what they're doing anyways, probably. You could play where Clearwater where the Phillies play and draw about $8,000. I mean, you'd be running into probably a lot of rain delays. Excessive heat. Yes. Humidity. Mosquitoes.

What are they going to do? I don't know. But there was an initial talk that maybe they would try to convince the city of Oakland to take the team on for a year. And playing that dumpster fire. That's hilarious. Isn't that funny? Now, I thought the new place wasn't supposed to be ready for a couple of years. 2027.

Okay, yeah, 2027 then. Yeah. Yeah. Suggestions for alternative raise locations have included the spring training sites for the Phillies, Blue Jays, Yankees, Pirates, and Yankees. Wow. And Tiger, excuse me. But all those, again, are less than 10,000 seats. There has also been talk of the race playing in the mom.

Miami Marlin Stadium. That's four hours from St. Petersburg where the primary team plays. Man, we have run into some weird things in our life in sports. Have we not? Tropicana Field. How do you make a stadium in Tampa Bay and you're not ready for a hurricane? I guess it's like the worst hurricane ever. Well, I was going to say, I mean, it's going through other hurricanes.

Although Tampa St. Peter's not had a direct hit in 100 years. Oh, okay. It's tough. You can't use the Ranger Stadium. busy because they're busy selling tickets for everything. They can't. They can't afford to move their schedule. No, they can't. The Rangers are going to say no. And you can't make them

carpetbaggers for an entire season, right? You can't play every game in the road. What kind of life would that be? All right. So that's just the latest there. They don't know what they're going to do. My guess is, Rossi, they'll probably play some spring training games or regular season games in our spring training sites. I don't know what else they're going to do, but like you said, what do you're going to

do when it gets hot in the middle of summer? And then MLB probably is going to subsidize them. Because, I mean, I don't know. What do they draw? 15,000 a game? I can go look. Can't be much. So we got that going for them. I mean, as far as legitimate people in the building, it's probably around there.

Yeah. Are actually people that paid? About 9,000 probably. Ooh, let's see. So here you have the A's next year playing in a AAA stadium in Sacramento. That I think seats 15,000. Oakland, 28th, Tampa Bay, 29th. I'm sorry.

Oakland 30th, Tampa Bay, 28th. 16,500. So they'd still be taking a loss. Who's 29th? If Oakland is 20, 10. Tampa Bay is 28. Who'd be 29th in attendance?

It's obvious, isn't it? It's not the White Sox. They're 27th. Hold on. Who doesn't draw flies? It's hard to think of because they're so nondescript, but that's how they have so few people going. The Miami Marlins.

Marlins. 13,000 a game. And they have a nice stadium, too. 16,000 a game for Tampa. In the Astros last year, how did they finish? They were eighth at 35,0002. Actually down from the previous year. Because the Astros have drawn three million a couple times, haven't they?

The year before was 37, 683. So they were almost at $3 million in the previous year. Yeah, I mean, Dodgers are won, and they draw more than you could even fit in a minute-made. 48,000 again. That place eats 50,000. Dodgers, Yankees, Philly, Padres, Braves, Cubs, Cardinals, Astros. It's not bad. Good category.

You know what it does? It keeps Jim Crane in the money-making business and keeps him in the spending money to make money business. And the number one question will be is, where's it going to spend the money in third base next year? Is it Zach Desenzo? Yon Moncata, come on down. We'll see. We will see.

Yeah, I don't anticipate the asteros being super big spenders in the free. I don't think they can be. I think once they get to arbitration, people were saying they're going to be like a couple million dollars under the tax threshold. Yeah, and you've got to save a little bit of money in case you want to go grab somebody. And again, if you do it two years in a row, it costs you that much more. The 20% tax goes up to 30%. I don't even want to think about what could be in three years. Because here's the reality.

you can be super, super good for a long period of time. And if you run a good organization, you may be down for a few years and get right back up. The case example right now is the Atlanta Braves. Atlanta Braves in the 1990s, winning divisions, winning pennants, won one World Series. We're always there. Took a little bit of a downtrod and turn. And the last five or six years have been a perennial playoff team. I would have loved to have seen if Jeff Luno could have kept the window open.

if you didn't have to fire him and lose all those draft picks. What do you think he would have done differently? You just draft players better and better international signings and keep the farm system stocked. But he was also willing to give up players in the minor league system to go get Zach Grinkie. That's what the Dodgers have been doing too. You can trade for Jack Flaherty when you have a bunch of prospects. You can trade for Mookie Betts. the thing that's going to ultimately

has hurt the team is the money that was spent on two players that are nowhere near the Astros organization while one's in the model leagues in Montero and you're on the hook again for another year of Jose Abrae.

Oh, my God. What's Jose Abrae are doing right now? Oh, napping. Man, good for him. That's great. I'm happy for him. Why would you be happy for him? Why not?

He got paid. I'm not happy for a guy that was so bad. I'm not happy for a guy that was so bad he had to get released? It's not like he's a bad dude. No, not a bad dude, but I'm not going to sit there and go, I'm hoping you're enjoying your offseason because your season certified him? No, hell no, good for him.

He got his bag. How about get your bad speed up? Good for Raphael Montero, too. Ugh. He didn't put that contract in front of him. He just signed it. So really, we should be not mad at them. We're just really mad at Jeff Bagwell.

Roy, if you're listening, go tell your team. They put the deal in front of Jose O'Brien, he signed it. They can be mad at him for that. That's true. but it is interesting how one or two bad free agency conversations and signings can ultimately not only impact your current record but it also impairs your budget for future years

moral of this story don't pay people in their mid-30s oh I guarantee you it'll be a lot more careful consideration for going to get guys that had numbers on the back on their baseball card Matt yeah yeah Oh, no, I said it did not.

Get him, Connor! Oh, I said it did not. Oh, what's going to happen to me now? Oh, my God. You're going to get everything that you deserve. Eventually, because we're trying to kill time before he plays. Oh! Yeah!

Prime them up! May I be saddled with a 2005 to Toto Tersel? What's wrong with that, Matt? Somebody about to call in? Well, I think they stopped making the Tricel in the 90s. 343,000 miles. Corolla is still running. I've had some.

I've had some interesting cars on my day. You have? Cutlass Capri. Word? Old. I didn't know you're rolling in the cutty, Matt. Yeah. And the roof fell on me, so that wasn't good.

That's not good. And then I had a Bronco, too, and they said, stop driving those things because they roll over every five seconds. Cowlings were in that? He was in a real Bronco. I was in the mini Bronco. Okay. You make a left turn, and you feel like you're going to turn over it, literally? Oh, they were not safe cars.

That's not good. That's not at all. Rossi, what is believe it or not today? I got to work on it. I didn't believe it's operant. and Gungoon and Jalen Green, correct? We'll see. Well, and Connor, are we still playing for Judas Priest's tickets?

No, we got tickets to go see the Toadies, and we also got tickets for the Cougars game against the Utah. Yutes. It is, I believe, game is coming to Houston this weekend for the Utah-Huston game. Really? They're not. Ward has that they're going to be in Indiana this week, and that Lee Corso will announce his retirement there because that's where he coaches college football.

It'd be kind of apropos, would it not? All right, believe or not, Toadies and Utah Houston tickets, If you want to play, believe it or not, we'll do that next here on Sports Talk 790. 713-212-5-790. 7-1-3-212-5-790. Believe it or not, all things Schengoon, all things Jalen Green, here on Sports Talk 790. Matt Thomas continues on Sports Talk 790. Felipe says, regarding the Brayu-Montaro contracts, can't the Astros just pay off the remainder of their contracts and get them off the books?

Nope, doesn't work that way. once you sign a player under a contract for a certain year, it goes against a salary cap figure. And if you go over that salary amount, regardless of the player plays or not, that is considered taxable after a certain level. So that's the reason why they've gone over the threshold last year and we'll pay a fine for that.

And they'll have to pay double that fine if they do it again this year. So, yeah, they probably wrote the checks or they can figure out a way to finance it however they want to, but it goes against the dollar amount that the Astros are using for their payroll for particular year. So in theory, Jim will pay those off. But in reality, when it comes to the baseball economics of it, they go against a yearly salary cap.

They can go over that cap. Like I said, you go over at our second year. It's going to cost you more money. On the radio show tomorrow, we will have Rafael Stone. Rock is General Manager joins us 1230 tomorrow. We will have shut your ball masks up. You never know what else will do. We'll have, have you ever will do so.

Today we did, how old your car? What we're going to do tomorrow? What's the topic tomorrow? It would be something way off the beaten path. I don't know. How much do you love the micribs? Gardening tips. I think it should be,

how many micrubs have you had in the last calendar year? When should I prune my pine trees? Oh, home improvement. When do I trim the crepe mertles? Yeah, home improvement. I've got a leaky faucet. How do I get to fix that up? Okay.

Siding. Yeah, yeah. Siding talk tomorrow. Should I patch my own roof or should I pay somebody to do it? Yeah. When's it time to get a new water heater? Relevant questions tomorrow and Texans break down like a mother. Wow. All that tomorrow here on the show.

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Believe it. Statements. He's erroneous full of bunk and made up. You'll say this. Not. Two believe or not to a row. win your prize. Connor, what are we playing for today? A pair of tickets to see Toadies live

December 29th at House of Blues. A pair of tickets to see the Houston Cougars take on the Utah Uts this Saturday, October 26th at TDECU Stadium and some 790 T-shirts. Kevin on 790, you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. As a high schooler, Jalen Green was named California's Mr. Basketball

in 2021. Believe it or not? Believe it? No chance. I'm sorry. I'm sure there's other qualified candidates out there. Bill, what's your favorite toty song? I'm trying to go to those coos, baby. Jalen Green finished fifth out of five in the 2022 NBA slam dunk contest. Believe it or not. Ross wasn't prepared.

Not, not. Not. It's easy. One more for the win. Jalen Green originally wanted the jersey number four when he was a rookie, but Daniel House refused to give up the number. Believe it or not. Man, believe it.

Oh, geez. Did he win the last 30 days? Hopefully, he'll once they can't win these prizes. And just hang up on Bill. Chris on 790. Chris, you're ready to play, believe it or not? David. Jalen Green's father, Marcus Green,

played college basketball for San Jose State University. Believe it or not? Not. No, you're right about that. Statement number two for the win. As a youth, Alperin-Changoon was a competitive swimmer, and his parents encouraged him to choose swimming over basketball. Believe it or not.

Believe it. That is also correct. Another one today. Mark on 790, Mark, what was your favorite part of today's radio show? Believe it or not. Although he is often compared to Nikola Yokic, Alperin Shangoon has stated his favorite player of all time his fellow Turkish national Hito Turkaloo. Believe it or not.

Believe it. No, we talked about it all day long. If you listen to show, you don't know. Kevin Durant. his favorite player. Is it? Okay. Greg on 790,

you ready to play, believe it or not? Believe it. As Turkish League MVP, Alperin-Changoon, average 22 points, 11 rebounds and six assists during the 2021 season.

Believe it or not? Believe it. No, Rossman, of every one of those stats. Leon on 790, Leon, what was your fair part of today's radio show?

You? Alprin, thank you. Alprin Shingun, it was a little weird, but it's fine. Alprin Shingoon learned to speak English partly by playing video games including Call of Duty, believe it or not?

Believe it. That's correct. You win. Three winners today. Sorry. It was fine. I'm sorry. Look at the disappointment on Connor's face. Well, Connor, tell me to do a believe it or not a little sooner in the show. Always waiting in the last second. We really should do that. We could do a 130, believe it or not. We haven't we've not done enough for that. Tell me when and I'll have it ready. I like it.

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